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2 [Correspondency] C Place and Time

||7 TimeOf the [limits] of penal branch of law

meaning the punishment belonging to the political
sanction. If then the any act one question that
may be proposed comes within any of those
cases, and yet the tendency of it is neither pernicious
notwithstanding nor beneficial, but indifferent,
it comes not at all within the Department
of ethics: if the tendency of it is pernicious it comes within any of these cases
and at the same time the tendency of it is pernicious, [+]
[+] the consequence of it belongs, not to either branch of jurisprudence but
to private ethics merely.

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Variableness of these limits.
Upon This line of distinction, it is plain upon
the very face of it, can not be a very permanent
one. [+] [+] Or if the line itself should be deemed permanent, because the words employ'd in drawing it maybe always the same, yet the particular cases that come under it will at different times be altogether different. It is like a line drawn in the air. It is like the a imaginary line in the Zodiack: which though itself constantly the same, would at different times correspond to very different parts of the surface of the earth beneath. It depends upon circumstances of
a local and temporary nature. Consider the
circumstances that may render a case unmeet
for punishment, and we shall soon
see that an act that is meet for punishment
in our country, may, even though pernicious
in both, be unmeet for it in another: and
that in the same country an act that is
meet at one time, may though pernicious at both times be unmeet for it at
another. [+] To p. 2. Even though the nature of the acts should

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Box	100	Main Headings	influence of time and place
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field	place & time
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
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